Adrian Crowley - "Electric Eels" [MySpace/buy]
Nick Drake - "Fruit Tree" [buy]
Does Crowley steal from Drake? I am still thinking about it. Besides, I haven't seen the full liner notes. But probably this falls somewhere between reincarnation, hômage and déjà vu. One song is dusky gold, the other undersea grey. One is a prophecy, the other a warning. One promises fruit, the other - flooding. Experimental data: in my fireplace, both songs take as long to burn.
(Thanks, Davin.)
Posted by Sean at December 29, 2008 11:29 AMit is hard to listen to anything in comparison to Nick Drake, really it is.
However,
Crowley floats somewhere in between Kurt Wagner and Bill Callahan and while that does not possess the same glimmer of beauty that Drake does, it is a nice cloud to be.
Those photos blew my mind when I first saw them last year or whenever that was. Nice. Epic, end days stuff.
Posted by Andy at December 29, 2008 9:36 PMBrian - Yeah, but um don't you think these songs sound the same? (Chordally speaking?)
Posted by Sean at December 29, 2008 10:38 PMWell yeah, I do. But the melody is where my ears go and all that vocal discord in Crowley throws it off. Discord may not be the right word, my lack of musical vocab is showing...
It really is nice though. I am sorry I missed the free download that The Irish Times was offering for 2 weeks earlier this month.
Posted by BMR at December 29, 2008 10:57 PMAren't they both ripping off the "Feed the Birds, tuppence a bag" song from Mary Poppins?
Posted by implied otter at December 30, 2008 8:19 PM
and it will begin playing. All songs are also available to download: just right-click the link and choose 'Save as...'
